Sarah Palin

Former Governor of Alaska

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been on the national stage since Arizona Sen. John McCain named her to be his running mate in 2008. They lost to Barack Obama and Joe Biden; she was roundly criticized for appearing at a loss for words in a CBS News interview and for off-message comments about Alaska's international ties.

Since then, her criticism of the Obama administration, support of the tea party, and a combination of Facebook, Twitter and her Fox News appearances have kept Mrs. Palin in the spotlight.

She is debating whether she will run in 2012. 'I'm engaged in the internal deliberations candidly, and having that discussion with my family, because my family is the most important consideration here,' she has said.

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Sarah Palin made an appearance on the “Saturday Night Live” 40th anniversary special, showing up during a question-and-answer bit hosted by comedian Jerry Seinfeld and teasing about running for president in 2016.

While poking fun at Sarah Palin for a shaky speech at the recent Iowa Freedom Summit, Daily Show host Jon Stewart edited the former vice-presidential candidate into one of Matthew McConaughy's Lincoln car commercials.

Sarah Palin, former Alaskan governor, current Fox News contributor and frequent critic of the "lamestream media," is the latest media personality to try to bypass the traditional media ecosystem by launching her own online subscription channel.

Backers of a referendum say the former GOP governor should be their natural ally in a ballot fight to restore a law she signed in 2007 that implemented steep and progressive taxes on the biggest Alaska oil producers. But so far she has barely engaged on the issue.

Peter Wehner: Sarah Palin has spent much of the past half-dozen years doing pretty much all she can to vindicate those who said she was woefully unprepared to be vice president. Sadly, she has become her caricature.

Peter D. Hart: According to the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Annenberg Public Policy Center survey, 52% of Americans wish Sarah Palin would fade away, including almost 2 out of 5 conservatives and Republicans.